Audience

Healthcare professionals, medical providers, care workers and those with a responsibility for hygiene.

Course outline

This course enables the holder to develop and understanding of infection control management. It identifies the risks and precautions required to meet inspection and HSE standards whilst keeping employees, carers, and clients safe. It outlines common infections, transmission methods and safe handling of bodily fluids.

Training topics will include

• Types of Infections.
• What is an Infection?
• Universal precautions
• Legislation and guidance.

Learning outcomes

• Minimise and prevent the spread of infection
• To enable staff to follow appropriate hygiene practices
• To enable staff to provide services to care client safely and sensitively.

Trainer

Jane Graham, Director, Hieda
Trained at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children, Jane has 31 years of nursing background; 17 of which is in trauma and intensive care. Whilst in PICU, she had a number of different roles. Nine years of that included a role as a specialist retrieval nurse (CATS) that entailed travelling around the country to stabilize and bring back critically unstable children. To do this she learned advanced nursing and basic medical skills in resuscitation, all medical conditions, and trauma.

She went on to teach these skills to student nurses, qualified nurses and junior doctors as the Practice educator on intensive care. This role also involved lecturing regularly at South Bank University. She has been a DSL for Safeguarding at an independent boarding school where she was Lead Nurse. She is also an instructor for Qualsafe, an awarding body approved by the HSE.

Cost

• Member rate: £100
• Non-member rate: £200*

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